We can only hope to deal with serious mental health cases among young people if we try to avert disaster early on

Last Thursday, on RTE's The Big Picture - Young and Troubled we saw the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (Camhs) of south Galway sit down for a weekly meeting. They were gathered to review ongoing cases and assess those newly arrived.

Last Thursday, on RTE's The Big Picture - Young and Troubled we saw the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (Camhs) of south Galway sit down for a weekly meeting. They were gathered to review ongoing cases and assess those newly arrived.

Dr Cara Prior led the meeting and during its course, a fax arrived that turned out to be an urgent referral.

It was heartening to see how they immediately made time for this referral, a young man who was feeling low and had expressed suicidal thoughts.

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